Back to the Future 4, what the DeLorean would look like in 2025

If there is a cult film of the 80s, or rather a cult film saga, this is it for sure Back to the Futurethe film from which many young and former young people quote the lines by heart, even if they hadn’t yet been born when it came out in 1985.

Die-hard fans will surely know that the October 21, 2025 they will be celebrated 40 years of Back to the Future with a series of screenings, exhibitions and other initiatives around Italy under the name of “Back to the Future Day”. The film debuted in Italian cinemas on 18 October 1985, but the date of 21 October was chosen ten years ago in honor of the day on which the protagonists of the second episode transport themselves to their future.

As many of you will know time machine invented by Emmett “Doc” Brown and used by Marty McFly for his fantastic journeys back and forth through the years is a DeLorean DMC-12 modified. We started from this and we have created a render imagining what it would be like there DeLorean 2025 for a hypothetical – and repeatedly denied – new episode entitled “Back to the Future 4”.

After all, Doc said, “if you have to transform a car into a time machine, why not use a nice car?”

The DeLorean of the new millennium

Obviously we started from the same base used by the creators of the saga, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, that is, the same DeLorean DMC-12 which was no longer in production in 1985. Despite this, it remained an “exotic” car with everything necessary to be considered a dream supercar, from the stainless steel bodywork to the V6 petrol rear engine.

The DeLorean from Back to the Future 4 (2025), rendering by Motor1.com

Photo at: Motor1.com

We have taken the license to update the lines outlined way back in 1975 by Giorgetto Giugiaro for his Italdesign, with the typical wedge shape and clear edges, but we rounded everything off and widened the wheel arches, as a modern supercar deserves.

Obviously they remain in place gull-wing doorsproblematic for film shooting because they tended not to remain open, in addition to all those additional components that transform a super coupé into a legendary “time machine”.

Carbon fiber everywhere

The basic model is the one from the first film, the car driven by Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd and powered by plutonium that travels through time, but still can’t fly. However, we took the liberty of making some changes that make it more contemporary and suitable for the new millennium.

First of all, the four original halogen headlights become more current LED matrix headlights with over 50,000 pixels capable of creating spectacular nighttime animations and projecting messages and directions onto the road. Goodbye to the brushed stainless steel bodywork, chosen in Back to the Future also for its hypothesized ability to improve the dispersion of the flow generated by the “channel flow”, a key element for time travel.

The gull-wing doors cannot be missing

Photo at: Motor1.com

In its place there is a monocoque in carbon fiber with exposed unpainted finish and treated with metal composites to improve electrical conductivity. The result is a spirited two-seater with a mid-rear engine that is lighter than current hypercars and with an astonishing weight/power ratio that we will tell you about later.

This is also thanks to the ultra-light carbon shell seats, the full carbon fiber wheels (21″ and 22″) and equipment practically limited to the 1.21 gigawatt rear micro nuclear reactor, the “channel flow” and the digital instrumentation.

Our video test of the historic DeLorean DMC-12

V8 biturbo hybrid plug-in da 2.300 CV

Instead of the original and now anachronistic DeLorean engine, the 132 HP 2.8 V6 PRV that transmits its power to the rear wheels, we opted for a much more powerful all-wheel drive and plug-in hybrid powertrain.

More than an engine, our DeLorean 2025 features a concentration of power and technology capable of surprising Doc himself by making him exclaim his classic “Great Jupiter!”, or “Great Scott!” for those who love the original language version.

The plug-in hybrid twin-turbo V8 engine from the donor, the Koenigsegg Gemera

We are talking about the engine Plug-in hybrid twin-turbo V8 of the Koenigsegg Gemera HV8 which develops a record power of 2.300 CV (1,500 HP petrol and 800 HP electric) for a maximum torque of 2.750 Nm. The electric motor called Dark Matter E-motor with Raxial Flux technology alone seems to have come out of the script of Back to the Future 4 or from “Doc” Brown’s notebooks.

Obviously the battery charging from 14 kWh it can be done from the nuclear reactor or, for convenience, from an electrical socket connected right at the top of the reactor, where the famous “Mr. Fusion” will also be installed.

Photo at: Koenigsegg

It takes very little distance to “get to 88”

With an empty weight of approx 1.600 kg and a maximum power of 2,300 HP it is easy to understand how the weight/power ratio is a record for a road car, in the order of 0,69 kg/CV. Therefore better than the Ferrari F80 (0.87 kg/HP) or the SSC Tuatara (0.70 kg/HP).

The all-wheel drive equipped with torque vectoring is driven by the electric motor, the V8 or both through the 9-speed multi-clutch automatic transmission Light Speed Tourbillon Transmission (LSTT) patented by Christian Koenigsegg. It follows that the ease with which it reaches the 88 miles per hour necessary (141.6 km/h) to travel through time is disarming.

DeLorean DMC-12 Lego Back to the Future (2025)

Photo at: Lego

Back to the Future 2 DeLorean Lego Build

Suffice it to say that our DeLorean from a hypothetical “Back to the Future 4” is capable of accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in 1.8 secondsreaching 200 km/h from standstill in 3.7 seconds and reaching 400 km/h in 15 seconds. In short, Marty will no longer have to say: “Doc, you need to get more running. We don’t have enough road to get to 88.”

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